Communism

After its victory in the Chinese Civil War, the Communist Party of China (CCP) led by Mao Zedong gained control of most of Mainland China. On 1 October 1949, they established the People's Republic of China as a Socialist State headed by a "Democratic Dictatorship" with the CCP as the only legal political party, thus, laying claim as the successor state of the ROC. The central government of the Chinese Nationalist Party led by Chiang Kai-shek retreated to the island of Taiwan that it had occupied at the end of World War II, and moved the ROC government there. Major armed hostilities ceased in 1950 but no peace treaty has been signed. An estimated 36 million died during the Great Chinese Famine of 1958-61.

Stalin saw Leon Trotsky as a threat to his power as the Soviet leader. Trotsky had been a vocal critic of Stalin and Stalin's so-called "communists". Stalin had Trotsky exiled and later assassinated. Even in exile, Trotsky was considered as a major threat by Stalin. Trotsky's ideas were being spread around the world in Marxist circles. Stalin believed he had to liquidate the Marxist Trotsky.

The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 was initiated by millions of people who would change the history of the world as we know it. When Czar Nicholas II dragged 11 million peasants into World War I, the Russian people became discouraged with their injuries and the loss of life they sustained. The country of Russia was in ruins, ripe for revolution.

True Communism according to Marx would be a classless society without money but merely working in exchange for commodities. In the ultimate stage of Communism which has yet to be achieved there would be no state or government as that would divide people again into governors and governed.

Marx and Lenin are communist leaders

Marx (1818 -1883) and Engels first conceived Communism and wrote the communist manifesto (1848) and capital (1867)

and Lenin was the leader of the October revaluation and the storming of the winter palace

ie marx created communisum - lenin tried to put his theory into practice

The Hammer and Sickle was the emblem of Soviet Russia.

Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks during the Bolshevik Revolution.

In 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (alias Lenin) seized control of Russia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, created the Soviet Union and ruled it until his death in 1924. Lenin was one of the leading political figures in the 20th century. He was the revolutionary thinker behind the USSR idea (a.k.a. The Great Soviet Union), fought to materialize it and masterminded the Bolshevik bloody takeover of power in Russia after Russia's withdrawal from World War One. Lenin's reign as the head of the newly created Soviet Union was brief, but his influence stretched throughout the 20th century.

The Bolsheviks wanted to end the war, give workers and peasants control over their own economic and political affairs and spread socialism throughout Europe. They wanted to develop industry and agriculture within Russia so as to provide anough material goods and enough food for the whole population. They were thwarted in these goals however by the Tsarists, Mensheviks and Right Social Revolutionaries who joined forces and terrorised the Bolsheviks.

Lenin ended Russia's involvement in World War I by entering the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany and the other Central Powers in 1918.
Lenin had been exiled from Russia for fomenting unrest with the Czar. He was living in Switzerland during most of the war. The Germans helped him get back home, through "The Finland Station". This worked out for Germany in WWI, because the October 1917 Revolution which Lenin led resulted in Russian withdrawal from the war, but it came back to bite them in WWII, when the Russians overran eastern Germany and stayed there for more than forty years.

Communism as a political or economic philosophy was invented by Karl Marx, but he was not a political leader. The first political leader to create a communist state was Vladimir Ilych Lenin. His version of communism became known as Marxist-Leninism.

Yes, Lenin was a communist, although his ideas on how a country should become communist were not the same as Karl Marx's ideas. Lenin often deviated from strict Marxist ideology in order to accomplish his personal agenda.

The United States did not prevent communism after World War II, but it did attempt to slow its spread. Two of the best examples of this are the Korean War and the Berlin Airlift.

In the Korean War, the United States assisted the fledgling South Korean government when the communist North Koreans invaded.

When the Soviet Union attempted to strangle Berlin, the United States flew nonstop missions to deliver much needed food, supplies and medicine (the Berlin Airlift).

Small proxy wars were fought all over the globe, most of which never directly involved the two 'superpowers.' This worldwide game of chess was repeated throughout the Cold War.

The U.S. tried to stop Communism in a number of different ways throughout history; wars, money, etc. Most of the wars we fight are because we want to stop the spread of Communism. Also, post-WWII, we gave money to countries such as Greece, Turkey, etc, to ensure that they would not turn to Communism, because obviously if you look throughout history, poor countries tend to turn to Communism for a "quick" fix. We thought (and still kind of think) if we give money to poor countries who are in threat of Communism, that they will think the U.S. is a great country and want to be Democratic, which happend with Greece and Turkey.

The House of Un-American Activity, or HUAC, was known for investigating communism in the film industry. They created a blacklist of Hollywood stars that they suspected had communist ties, destroying their careers.

there is rising unemployment.formerly the government tried to employ more people than necessary,but when there is privatisation,firms become efficient with the view to maximise profit.they sack labour if costs are rising and labour not productive.there is also competition due to which inefficient firms are forced out of business and thus unemployment.

INFLATION-there is the illusion of low price in the planned market-govt sets maximum prices but later on firms set price equal to costs of production.

The answers is No.

Yes, the United States and its allies did technically "contain" communism, but the fall of the Soviet Union was less of the United States' work and more the fault of the Soviets themselves. The Kremlin's attempted cover-up of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and other missteps in their economic policy cost the country billions, and eventually led to the demise of the once powerful nation and the introduction of the Commonwealth of Independent States in 1991.

It likely would not continue to function very long. US citizens hold their freedoms dear and are of a peculiarly rebellious sort. US citizens tend to rebel against authority even when it is not so overbearing and controlling as in a communist country such as China or North Korea. Of course, being a democratic country, it is highly unlikely that a true communist group could take control outside of a coup.

It was when the US government over dramatised the Bolshevik revolution because they did not like communism and so made anti-communist propaganda, causing people to fear 'Communism' like a disease. pretty stupid really.

Because they feared it would spread and eventually reach them and change their system. the Americans had a capitalist system vs. a communist one and they both compete and are complete opposites.